Jun '23

I was unhappy with the way I approached gesture drawings. They looked stiff and I felt as though I wasn't truly capturing the gesture. After looking some videos on how to gesture draw, there was one video that gave me the push I needed to understand more on the subject.

Love Life Drawing 'Figure drawing will make sense after this video' gave me that extra push. After watching the video, I noticed a difference in my gesture drawings. Still have a long way to master gesture drawing but the very least I feel as though I'm heading the right direction.
Gesture Drawing 1 minute

Jun '23

good stuff, that channel changed the way i look at gesture completely, i even did a little challenge on his forum a while back that quite literally opened my eyes, awesome find.

Jun '23

Been doing more one minute gestures drawing and I see some improvement which makes me very happy. I am focusing more on trying to break down the gesture so I sometimes (or most of the times) don't get to finish the pose. But overall happy I'm getting the feeling of the pose down. Gotta keep practicing more.


Jun '23

You're doing pretty good so far. I like your gesture drawings.

Jun '23

Thank you! I'm happy to be seeing some progress in my gesture drawing and I hope to get so much better in the future.

8 days later

Jun '23

How do you make your gestures so clean?

2 months later

Sep '23

Got back on track. Here are some one minute gestures. I am trying a new approach for gestures. Did some cylinders since I was rusty too. Added some doodle faces cuz I got a bit distracted.



Sep '23

Reply to

gregorya

Sorry for the late reply. Before starting the gesture drawing, I would take some time to analyze the gesture pose so that when I start drawing I sorta have an idea.

Sep '23

Great work on your gestures and cylinders, the ellipses are looking good. Another thing you can try is to add some foreshortening to the cylinders, making the farther ellipse slightly smaller and placing the contour line slightly further away (farther section looks smaller than the closer section. For getting a more exact idea where and how that would look you can use a cube in perspective to guide you first, but after a couple it shouldn’t be too hard for you to make them freehand

Cheers!

Sep '23

Good gesture and shape drawings. And thanks for the information.